One Child’s Life

I have never read anything as harrowing as Aleksandar Hemon’s account of his baby’s death (“The Aquarium,” June 13th & 20th). It is often said that losing a child is the most painful thing a person can endure, and the despair Hemon expresses is usually unspeakable. With greatest respect for the writer, I must disagree with his conclusion that “Isabel’s suffering and death did nothing for her, or us, or the world.” What it did for me was to affirm the power of one small human life.

Ken Klonsky

Vancouver, B.C.

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